frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · il y a 11 moisWhat have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ?message-squaremessage-square156fedilinkarrow-up194arrow-down111
arrow-up183arrow-down1message-squareWhat have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ?frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · il y a 11 moismessage-square156fedilink
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·il y a 11 moisI have one for this! I once asked someone “In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?” I thought she’d say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF) She said George Washington!
minus-squareRobotToaster@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·il y a 11 moisVariolation isn’t vaccination though. AFAIK Jenner did invent vaccination.
minus-squareZak@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·il y a 11 moisIn the original sense of exposing people to vaccina (cowpox virus), it is not. In the modern sense, it’s an attenuated vaccine.
minus-squaresous-merde@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up9·il y a 11 moisIn France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i’m hearing about Edward Jenner
minus-squareyermaw@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·il y a 11 moisSame here in the UK, but Alexander Fleming
minus-squareObi@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·il y a 11 moisPour être honnête je connais pasteur pour (choquant), la pasteurisation. Cela dit ma réponse a “qui a inventé la vaccination” aurait été “euuuuuh”.
minus-squarespicy pancake@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·il y a 11 moisEven I didn’t know about that! That’s really cool ty for sharing
I have one for this!
I once asked someone “In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?”
I thought she’d say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF)
She said George Washington!
Variolation isn’t vaccination though. AFAIK Jenner did invent vaccination.
In the original sense of exposing people to vaccina (cowpox virus), it is not. In the modern sense, it’s an attenuated vaccine.
In France we only know Louis Pasteur, first time i’m hearing about Edward Jenner
Same here in the UK, but Alexander Fleming
Pour être honnête je connais pasteur pour (choquant), la pasteurisation. Cela dit ma réponse a “qui a inventé la vaccination” aurait été “euuuuuh”.
Even I didn’t know about that! That’s really cool ty for sharing